At the river's mouth, digging rocks as if engraving
letters. Indigo seaweed photosynthesizing discharges oxygen at the Cambrian
layer. In the upper layers, animals with first shells overflow and emerge. A
stream of trilobites impresses its image like tracks deep in the universe. The
root of the rock below the weathered grass is about to open its parched,
brittle buds. From where have they come in boats like dry bones? Where do they
go, like words? Though I wait . . . though I strain my ears, there is no
sound. And yet a certainty.